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ACMAEODEKA PULCHERRIMA Jacquelin Duval 



Acmeieodera pulcherrima Jacquelin Duval, in Ramon de la Sagra's Hist. 

 Phys. Polit. et Nat de I'lle de Cuba, Anim. Arctic., 1857 (French Edi- 

 tion), pp. 5G-57; (Spanisli Edition) vol. 7, 1857, p. 26. — Chevrolat, 

 Ann. Soc. Ent. France, ser. 4, vol. 7, 1867, p. 583 (separates p. 159). — 

 GuNDLACH, Contribuciou a la Eutom. Cuba, vol. 3, pt. 5, 1891, pp. 

 160-167, no. 808.— Fall, Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc, vol. 7, 1899, p. 16.— 

 Kerremans, Mon. Bupr., vol. 2, 1906, pp. 53-54, pi. 11, fig. 3. 



Robust, rather short, strongly triangular, broadly rounded in 

 front, more acuminate posteriorly, and rather moderately convex 

 above (nearly straight or at most only feebl}^ arcuate beneath, and 

 strongly arcuate above when viewed in profile) ; head and pronotum 

 aeneous, with a slight cupreous tinge, the latter with an irregular 

 reddish-yellow spot, situated on each side along the lateral margin, 

 broader posteriorly and not quite reaching to the posterior nor apical 

 angles; elytra black, with an aeneous, greenish or cupreous tinge, 

 and ornated with numerous small irregular yellow markings, which 

 are A^ariable in size and shape, and giving the surface a variegated 

 or marbled appearance ; beneath aeneous, with a strong cupreous 

 tinge, and more shining than aboA^e. 



Head flat, feebly depressed on the front, and with a distinct longi- 

 tudinal carina on the occiput ; surface densely and coarsely punctate, 

 the punctures not very deep, smooth in the bottom, and from the cen- 

 ter of each arises a short, erect inconspicuous hair, the intervals 

 smooth and shining; epistoma broadly arcuately emarginate in front, 

 forming an acutely rounded lobe on each side of the emargination ; 

 antennae serrate from the fifth point. Pronotum strongly trans- 

 verse, and moderately convex, two and one-half times as wide as long, 

 distinctly narrower in front than behind, widest at base, with an 

 obsolete longitudinal median sulcus, a narrow transverse depression 

 along the anterior margin, broadly interrupted at the middle, and 

 on each side along the inner margin of the yellow space, a broad 

 obsolete depression, extending to a round deep fovea situated a 

 certain distance from the base; sides strongly obliquely expanded 

 from the anterior margin to the posterior angles, which are nearly 

 rectangular, the margins narroAvly flattened and bent under pos- 

 teriorly, and not visible from above except toward the apical angles; 

 anterior margin actuately emarginate, Avith an obsolete median lobe; 

 base transversely truncate; surface densely and deeply punctate, the 

 punctures fine and distinctly separated on the disk, becoming much 

 coarser and more or less confluent toward the side, and sparsely 

 clothed with short erect inconspicuous hairs, the intervals smooth and 

 shining. Elytra convex, slightly wider than pronotum at base, the 

 sutural intervals broadly expanded on the basal half, the disk con- 

 vex, smooth and shining; humeral angles nearlv rectangular: sides 



